Trending News: This Is Why You *Don't* Mess With A Bikini-Clad Sunbathing Babe In Sweden

Why Is This Important?

Long Story Short

Social media in Sweden was all abuzz this week about the story of a cop sunbathing and wearing only a bikini, who made an awesome takedown of a suspected thief.

Long Story

Mikaela Kellner has been a Stockholm cop for a while now, but as she points out on her Instagram, it’s never too late for firsts. A photo of Kellner subduing a suspected thief in a park has been trending in Sweden this week. It’s not hard to see why.

It was her "first intervention while wearing a bikini during my 11 years as a police officer,” according to her Instagram account.

Kellner and some friends were sunbathing in a park when a homeless man selling newspapers approached the group, she told the Swedish newspaper Aftonblaedet. Even after the group declined to buy anything, the man kept hanging around. That set her cop spidey-sense tingling.

She warned her friends to watch their stuff, but after the man left, one of them noticed her cell phone had gone missing. “There was no time, so I ran after him, maybe 15 meters or so,” she said. “One of my friends is also a police officer, so we got ahold of him. He tried to get away so we held onto him harder,” she said.

She added that she didn’t worry too much about what she was wearing. “I did not hesitate. Had I been naked, I would have also intervened,” she said. “There was nothing stopping me, but it was a little comical that I grabbed him in a bikini.”